Downtown Huntsville Inc. Joins Effort to Move Confederate Monument from Courthouse Grounds

Downtown Huntsville Inc. has thrown its collective weight behind efforts to remove of a Confederate memorial statue that was placed on the Courthouse Square downtown by the Daughters of the Confederacy in 1905. The letter from the organization said DHI advocated “the removal and relocation of the Confederate Memorial from the Downtown Huntsville Courthouse Square […]

KTECH Implements 3D Virtual Tours as New Recruitment Tool

When her Kids To Love foundation was deemed an essential business during the coronavirus shutdowns due to its support for foster children across North Alabama and Southern Tennessee, founder and CEO Lee Marshall used the opportunity to accelerate an innovative 3D Virtual Tour recruitment tool she already had in the works for her KTECH students, […]

Trash Pandas Hosting Movies, Block Parties, Camps in Lieu of Baseball This Summer

MADISON — Just a couple months ago, Josh Caray planned on calling play-by-play baseball in the first season of the Double-A Rocket City Trash Pandas. Instead, he’s helping the club Band-Aid what so far has been a lost baseball season across the nation in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. “You look forward to a […]

Rocket City Mom Promises a Creek Stomping, Splashpad, Bucket List Good Time This Summer

There are 60 days of summer wedged in between the end of the 2020 school year and the beginning of the new 2020-21 school year. For working parents who rely on summer camps for childcare during summer break, not sending their children to summer camp is simply not an option for them. Stephenie Walker, managing […]

Rime of COVID-19: Virus Hanging Like an Albatross Around Our Necks

Spike in cases said likely in two weeks when any protestors contract the virus.

Auto Dealerships Driven to Survive During an Economic Storm

There is an old adage that says what doesn’t destroy us, makes us stronger. Deemed an essential business by Gov. Kay Ivey, car dealerships and their service departments have been steadfast in making the best of a bad situation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most of them have cut hours of operation; they have had to […]

Sitdown with Success: Straight to Ale’s Bruce Weddendorf

(Sitdown with Success is a regular feature of the Huntsville Business Journal on entrepreneurs and their keys to success. This month’s subject is Bruce Weddendorf who helped revolutionize the craft-brewing industry in Huntsville and the state.) Just four short weeks before COVID- 19 became everyone’s daily reality, Huntsville City Mayor Tommy Battle proclaimed Feb. 14 […]

Ya Gotta Eat! Madison Chamber’s Feeding the Frontline Program Extended into June

MADISON — The Madison Chamber of Commerce is continuing donations through this month for Feeding the Frontline. The program started in April to provide meals for those in the community who have worked tirelessly throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Those most-affected include medical professionals, law enforcement and emergency workers, sanitation workers and even postal workers, all of […]

Independent Radio Voices Facing Budget Struggles to inform Listeners

If Wes Neighbors is reading the tea leaves correctly, independently owned local radio stations might have a bright future if the coronavirus doesn’t cause much more financial headache. Neighbors, a financial consultant by trade, owns 97.7 The Zone that carries sports talk and live events such as Auburn football, UAH basketball, and high school games. […]

Ben Porter Realty is now Redstone Family Realty

Ben Porter Realty, a long-standing real estate agency, has been purchased by a subsidiary of Redstone Federal Credit Union and is now Redstone Family Realty. Redstone Family Realty joins RFCU’s network of real estate services: Redstone Family Realty, Redstone Mortgage Services and Redstone Title Services LLC. “Selling or buying a home is one of the […]